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Published by Scientific Review Publishing., London., 1914
Seller: Colophon Books (UK), Leek, United Kingdom
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Loose as Issued. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 32 pages with printed covers on tinted soft card. Some dustiness at edges and light vertical crease line down the middle but hardly noticed. Measures. 31 x 20 cm approx. NOTE* This journal was started 4 months before the outbreak of the Great War and I cannot find any record of this English ?Scientific Review? journal surviving either during or after the war. Has some fascinating articles on ?The Wheels of Time? (a transport editorial) + Polar Exploration by Ernest Porter + War and Science in 100 years by Major F. E. Freeth + several articles with illustrations on Cinematography and the illusion of photography & Wireless Telegraphy, the Binocular Microscope, Sewage Disposal (The Dickson System) + H.B.C. Pollard on Man-Lifting Kites (the fore?runner of parachutes and similar sky flying by a single person), etc.